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John Henry Lambert - Gone Away

John Henry Lambert - Gone Away

John Henry LambertGone AwayJohn Lambert RecordingsAlbum ReviewJohn Henry Lambert is a singer songwriters based in Devon, Gone Away is his debut record and it proves Lambert to be a very mature writer. The whole album...

Review posted on 27th May 2008

Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend

Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend

Howlin' RainMagnificent FiendBirdmanAlbum ReviewMagnificent Fiend is Howlin' Rain's second album, it couldn't be much different to it's forerunner and its psychy/punk vibe that they could've totally changed the bands name and gone for a whole...

Review posted on 19th May 2008

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Fleet FoxesFleet FoxesBella UnionAlbum ReviewIf a group of friends spent their lives being brought up listening to Beach Boys music, living in the wilderness with a lot of psychedelic and folk influences it might just...

Review posted on 19th May 2008

The Weepies - Hideaway

The Weepies - Hideaway

The WeepiesHideawayNettwerkAlbum ReviewWhen you gain celebrity fans and find other musicians paying homage to you you, you know something good's happening, further more, when your music's being featured on TV shows and movies people start...

Review posted on 19th May 2008

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Solos, Sessions and Encores

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Solos, Sessions and Encores

Stevie Ray Vaughan and FriendsSolos, Sessions and EncoresSonyBMGAlbum ReviewLike Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan was a wondering guitar slinger who made himself available for hire as a session musician as well as working on his...

Review posted on 15th May 2008

Constantines - Kensington Heights

Constantines - Kensington Heights

Constantines Kensington Heights Arts and Crafts Album Review Toronto based band Constantines release their fourth album, this time they offer us a healthy dose of anthemic punk that inspires car trips at full pelt. Kensington...

Review posted on 15th May 2008

Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch

Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch

MudcrutchMudcrutchWarnerAlbum ReviewMudcrutch was the name of the band that Tom Petty (and Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench) departed from in 1970 to go onto solo and Heartbreakers success. The band didn't record a debut record...

Review posted on 15th May 2008

The Old Haunts - Poisonous Times

The Old Haunts - Poisonous Times

The Old Haunts Poisonous Times Touch & Go Album Review Sometimes 'polished' is exactly what you don't want. You want 100 ideas a minute and instruments played honestly, rather than shimmering perfection. The spirit of...

Review posted on 29th April 2008

Doug Burr - On Promenade

Doug Burr - On Promenade

Doug Burr On Promenade Velvet Blue Album Review Doug Burr is a singer-songwriter in the Springsteen style - songs come out fully formed and ready for some full band attention, but with an intimacy that...

Review posted on 29th April 2008

Tapes N Tapes - Walk It Off

Tapes N Tapes - Walk It Off

Tapes 'n Tapes Walk It Off Rough Trade Album Review Tapes 'n Tapes became instant US indie darlings with their debut The Loon, a spectacularly off-beat amalgam of rock's take on folk. The follow-up finds...

Review posted on 29th April 2008

The Breeders - Mountain Battles

The Breeders - Mountain Battles

The Breeders Mountain Battles 4AD Album Review The Breeders haven't exactly been prolific - just one album since their breakthroughs, Pod and Last Splash (and the phenomenon that was their hit single, Cannonball), and that...

Review posted on 21st April 2008

White Rabbits - Fort Nightly

White Rabbits - Fort Nightly

White Rabbits Fort Nightly Fierce Panda Album Review A 6-piece band from Bushwick, New York City, White Rabbits play a new, not-easy-to-pigeonhole music that draws from bands like Cold War Kids, The Walkmen, The Strokes,...

Review posted on 21st April 2008

Jesse Malin - On Your Sleeve

Jesse Malin - On Your Sleeve

Jesse Malin On Your Sleeve One Little Indian Album Review In what must be as bad a misstep as it's possible to take, Jesse Malin follows up his best album with his worst, by a...

Review posted on 21st April 2008

The Dodos - Visiter

The Dodos - Visiter

DodosVisiterFrench KissAlbum ReviewWho saw this one coming? An acoustic guitarist and a drummer, playing frenetic, trance-like folk, that is as compelling as any rock. Like a bluesier, edgier Sufjan Stevens, Dodos use banjo, fingerpicked guitar...

Review posted on 14th April 2008

Jason Isbell - Live at Twist And Shout

Jason Isbell - Live at Twist And Shout

Jason Isbell and the 400 UnitLive at Twist And ShoutNew WestAlbum ReviewJason Isbell's solo Sirens of the Ditch was a great way to step away from the Drive-By Truckers and extend his Don Henley-esque voice...

Review posted on 14th April 2008

Centro-matic - Dual Hawks

Centro-matic - Dual Hawks

Centro-matic/ South San GabrielDual HawksCooking VinylAlbum ReviewWill Johnson is the singer and songwriter for both of these bands - Centro-matic, a Crazy Horse-The Band style rock 4-piece and South San Gabriel, a quieter, mellower, folkier...

Review posted on 14th April 2008

The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain

The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain

The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain Paper Bag Album Review Indie-folk as a genre has exploded recently, with bands embracing the opportunity to add sonics to essentially acoustic music. The Acorn are a band from Ottawa,...

Review posted on 7th April 2008

Black Keys - Attack and Release

Black Keys - Attack and Release

Black Keys Attack and Release V2 Album Review Black Keys are one of the genuine phenomena of the past few years - a band playing primal blues that captured mass attention for the way they...

Review posted on 7th April 2008

Frank Turner - Love Ire and Song

Frank Turner - Love Ire and Song

Frank Turner Love Ire and Song Xtra Mile Album Review Anger is a wonderful emotion when recorded into well crafted songs. It has sustained folk and rock from Dylan to Uncle Tupelo. Too easily dismissed...

Review posted on 7th April 2008

Sarabeth Tucek - Sarabeth Tucek

Sarabeth Tucek - Sarabeth Tucek

Sarabeth Tucek S/TAlbum Review This debut album was good enough to earn Miami-born New York resident Sarabeth Tucek an opening slot at a Bob Dylan concert. With a dusky, smoky voice that echoes many, from...

Review posted on 31st March 2008

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

The RaconteursConsolers of the Lonely XL Album Review On one level, this is a fantastic reminder that great musicians can get into a studio and, without too much fiddling, come out with a better-than-average disc....

Review posted on 31st March 2008

Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell

Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell

Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell Memphis Industries Album Review Tokyo Police Club's debut EP, A Lesson in Crime, exploded into wide indie consciousness in 2006 - 7 songs, 16 minutes of fresh excitement from the...

Review posted on 31st March 2008

These United States - A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden

These United States - A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden

These United StatesA Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of EdenUnited InterestsAlbum Review With the new intelligence raging through American popular folk/ Americana/ rock, the congestion among bands that...

Review posted on 25th March 2008

Fink - Distance and Time

Fink - Distance and Time

FinkDistance and TimeNinja TuneAlbum Review Fink is Fin Greenall, a singer-songwriter and DJ from Brighton, whose mahogany voice recalls a more serious Jack Johnson, a Dave Matthews, a funkier John Martyn or a deeper, more...

Review posted on 25th March 2008

REM - Accelerate

REM - Accelerate

REMAccelerateWEAAlbum Review There has only ever really be one bad REM album, and that was the last, Around The Sun. It was so unremittingly awful that many long-time fans wondered what had happened to one...

Review posted on 25th March 2008

REM
The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded

The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded

The Dirtbombs We Have You Surrounded In The Red Album Review Garage rock is full of bands who turn up their fun dials, sometimes at the expense of their audience. The Dirtbombs started with two...

Review posted on 17th March 2008

Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago

Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago

Bon Iver For Emma Forever Ago Jagjaguwar Album Review The essential story behind this album is that Justin Vernon installed himself in a log cabin in rural Wisconsin for 3 months, and emerged with this...

Review posted on 17th March 2008

Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings

Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings

Counting Crows Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings Geffen Album Review There is a trick at the core of this album - it's essentially two albums. The Saturday Night rock bit is produced by Gil Norton...

Review posted on 17th March 2008

Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping

Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping

Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping Polyvinyl Album Review There can be magic in the interplay of male and female lead vocals, and the opener on this album, Get Your Head Around It, uses the harmony...

Review posted on 10th March 2008

The Black Crowes - Warpaint

The Black Crowes - Warpaint

The Black Crowes Warpaint Pinnacle Album Review If, for you, bands should be held in amber, delivering up the same stuff album after album, Warpaint will light your fire. Their first studio album in seven...

Review posted on 10th March 2008

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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate

Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate

On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...

Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying

Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]

Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.

Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review

Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review

Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.

WYSE talks to us about her

WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]

With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...

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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a

Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]

Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...

Keelan X talks to us about staying true to

Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]

Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.

Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]

Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]

Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...

Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and

Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]

Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...

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